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We can sleep at night The reason there are not many pro-Trump call-ins is because us Republicans are content with the leadership of President Trump and Vice President Vance. We can sleep at night knowing better government is evolving. We are patient now and allowing time necessary for true change. Democrats are discontent, mad because

Makes no sense The St. Joseph School District and board is spending millions on our three football and track stadiums. If the plan is to close Benton as a high school, then why spend millions of dollars on Benton Sparks Stadium? As Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, once said, first, God made idiots just for

Step up You know, I do understand one thing about life. You have to be willing to step into the belly of the beast. You have to be willing to face the darkness. If you’re not and you won’t stand for your family, your country, or your faith. That’s just true. It’s sad that people

We’re out We’re out. St. Joseph, you go ahead and stick to your guns on this St. Joe sewer tax. Keep raising it. It doesn’t make any difference to me. You know why? I’m moving out of the St. Joe City sewer tax area. What’s next? Are we great yet? In the last few months,

Welcome to America Well, we see what happened when Musk and Trump cut NOAA for our weather forecast and tell everybody when they should get shelter and when they shouldn’t. We seen that this weekend in Texas, all their precious little kids down there died because of Trump and Musk, and it’s not even hurricane

Money should be spent to help others I agree that it’s a waste of money to spend at Lake Contrary. Could that money be used to help everyone? Like with our sewer bills or with our landfill? Any other country does this Trump is not sending U.S. troops in America against United States citizens, as

Money better spent elsewhere I can’t imagine a worse use of money than throwing it in Lake Contrary, everyone should drive down to that area and see what it actually looks like. Much less pleasant place to live I just would like to ask this to city management, police department, everyone. What is the point

Something needs to change We just received our sewer bill and it’s almost double what it has been. We have been watering plants and the yard and washing our car. I don’t see how they can charge us a sewer rate for the amount of water that does not go down the sewer. I don’t

Why would they do that? Why would the Republicans rather give tax breaks to the very rich rather than ensure that our children in this country have the necessities of life?  About the scanner… I’m calling in regards to the scanner. Supposedly, they’re going to block it to where there’s no scanner traffic. For somebody that’s

Makes no sense Trump keeps saying we’re bringing in billions from the tariffs that he has imposed. So why is it that they need to raise the debt ceiling?  Only beautiful for the wealthy Anytime someone tells you they want to make things better, ask for who. There are always winners and losers, and in

Same old, same old I’d like to know when Republicans quit being Republicans. This deficit busting bill that they have, all these tax cuts for the rich, which is a Republican thing. But it’s the same old crap, trickledown economics. Where’s we’re always for balancing the budget, reducing the deficit? This bill doesn’t do anything

How they voted I request that the News-Press publish how our Missouri representatives voted on Trump’s great bill.  Editor’s note: In the Senate, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt both voted “Yea.” In the House, Rep. Graves voted “Yea.”   About rental inspections This is on the rental inspections. How are they supposed to come in

You have a problem If you can’t figure it out by now that the Democrats are the party of communism, socialism, illegal immigration, higher taxes and everything else that’s wrong with the country, you have a problem.  God Bless America I watched the news briefing this morning on the bombing over the weekend of the

Only responsibilities The only two responsibilities of our city government is our safety and our infrastructure, which is supposed to be financed and paid for out of our general fund. Yet when they need more money for our police, which is safety, they want more tax dollars from us taxpayers. When they need more money

Running off the townfolk Congratulations, St. Joe. I see just voted on an increase on your landfill, and your sewer rate increases. You just outpaced me. I will now move out of this area. I can’t afford to live in this one-horse town that can’t seem to get anything right. You’ve done it again. You’ve

Wonderful  What a wonderful weekend it was to be an American to see our president take positive steps to keep a nation from producing another nuclear weapon. The last thing this world needs is another nuclear war.  What’s next? Even President Donald Trump’s most fanatic followers have learned he can’t be trusted. Trump promised them

They just keep coming back In addition to last week’s article about the young men walking around, the latest is they are going around saying they’re working for a company called KIN and they’d like to spray your house for spiders. They just keep coming back. So funny I find it so funny when I

Something’s going on Something’s going on in St. Joseph. A young man walking around neighborhoods saying they represent Evergy talking about high light bills or selling solar panels or selling security systems. One young man walked in a neighborhood east of the Belt, between Pacific and Mitchell for three hours, up and down the street.

This is his fault If Trump hadn’t pulled us out of that Joint Comprehension Plan that Obama put into effect with Iran, we wouldn’t be in this mess now. But this is really his fault. And on top of that, he’s listening to Netanyahu now. He’s going to drag us into a bigger war.  

Get it passed So, the Democrats are worried that the new Big Beautiful Bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. During the last four years, the national debt went up 7.7%. If you put that into terms of 10 years, that would be over $19 trillion. So, the Democrats

A closer vote The school board’s been criticized the last few years, and rightfully so, for trying to shove a two-school idea down the peoples’ throats that nobody wants. But I would bet that vote would be closer than if the city council/mayor would have a vote on spending $7 million and then a quarter

Concentrate on academics I saw the new superintendent’s interview on the local news, and I can’t believe how disappointing it is. No one is going to move here if you build three new schools, as terrible as our academics are. Why don’t they concentrate on that and in five to 10 years come back. Maybe

What’s next? The Missouri Department of Conservation decision to close Pigeon Hill Shooting Range stops public access to a free public use area with safety as a convenient excuse. What’s next? You can’t fish in the Missouri River because it’s too deep. You might drown. You can’t duck hunt. If it’s too cold, you might

Paying for their mistakes So, let me see if I get this right. The city has decided that after years and years of neglect, I am now supposed to pay for what they have decided they have to repair on the city sewer. I’ve just now come to age to where I get to pay

Make it fair Instead of the city raising our sewer bills and having our local people who live here and who are taxed enough, why not have an earnings tax for all the people who come to St. Joseph, use our streets, use our sewer, and then take their paycheck back to their home cities

Just a suggestion This continued increase in the city sewer tax fee is not a good idea. The city administration is going to have to come up with a different way to cover the cost of this. Might I suggest the city start issuing tickets to people that do not have the appropriate licensing on

Hypocrite Sam Graves touts his support of rural hospitals when he votes for Trump’s bill, that is going to destroy Medicaid, Medicare and our rural hospitals. Some difference President Trump sent U.S. troops to back up LA police against protesters, just like he didn’t send troops to protect capital police against the mob he himself

It needs to stop It’s been reported that Trump is giving billionaire and mega donor Peter Thiel and his company Palantir millions of dollars to collect personal information on Americans. Authoritarians attack, prosecute and punish citizens they perceive as enemies. This collection and use of everyone’s private data to attack us is a huge danger

A very bad decision Regarding the article in the paper about the new shopping center, senior apartments and restaurant in north St. Joseph, I think that’s a very bad decision. I think we continue sprawling out St. Joseph when we have large areas of St. Joseph that need redevelopment. We don’t need to keep sprawling

Won’t be doing that I received a letter in the mail yesterday about how both of my dogs’ city licenses are expired and that I need to renew them. So, today I was trying to find out if I can renew them at the shelter or at City Hall. I’ve been informed no, you can